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Scientific View of a Miracle and Southern Letters
The piece reviews Dr. Augustus Le Plongeon’s New York Herald explanation of a trance marked by blood oozing from a Kentucky woman’s nail marks. It discusses hypnotism, belief in crucifixion, and counterpoints from science, then shifts to Thomas Nelson Page’s Southern literary history and later writings on reforming views of population, nutrition, and pure air. It concludes with reflections on public sentiment as a driver of change.
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Augustus le Plongeon
New York Herald
Louisville
le Plongeon
Annals of
Medical Science
Kentucky
Thomas Nelson Page
Lippincott’s
Page
Augusta J. Evans
Joel Chandler Harris
Remus
George W. Cable
Thomas
Robert _ Malthus
W. C. Atwater
United States
J. W. Quimby
Popular Science Monthly
Aind
Teres
Civilife